It will take days for major floodwaters to work their way south through the Mississippi. Flooding will persist through April.

Storms in parts of the South and Midwest have caused the river to swell. The Corps is eyeing it, though current projections ...

Fifth Louisiana Levee District President Reynold Minsky said he already has triggered the flood fight as Mississippi River rises.

POINTE À LA HACHE, La. (AP) — Oil company Chevron must pay at least $740 million to restore damage it caused to southeast ...

As the Mississippi River continues to rise, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin Phase One of their flood fight next ...

The lawsuit against Chevron was filed in 2013 by Plaquemines Parish, a rural district in Louisiana straddling the final leg of the Mississippi River heading into the Gulf of Mexico, also referred ...

Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi are home to 14 of the 20 largest immigration detention centers in the country. Democratic and Republican administrations have long used them as a hub for immigrant ...

ULM announced Friday that Pearl River Community College's Scotty Fletcher has been hired as the program's next women’s basketball coach.

Louisiana could see "generational" flood threats as a result of excessive rain expected in the U.S., causing runoff to move ...

The earliest a highly anticipated new Mississippi River bridge could be constructed ... a duck paddling in the water,” a representative from the Louisiana Department of Transportation and ...